PEDIATRICS Vol. 32 No. 3 September 1963, pp. 420-424
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CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA

Jerome W. Bettman M.D.1 and Gilbert W. Cleasby M.D.1

1 Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, California

Certain important points concerning congenital glaucoma should be remembered. The pediatrician should be suspicious of irritation of the eyes in an infant. Photophobia, lacrimation, and/or haziness of the cornea should make one suspect congenital glaucoma and call for competent ophthalmological examination. These findings indicate congenital glaucoma until proven otherwise. Medical therapy should not be attempted except as a supplement to surgery. Goniotomy is the operation of choice for congenital glaucoma.

Submitted on July 10, 1962
Accepted on December 17, 1962